How to Take a Digital Photo

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Do you want to take an outstanding digital photo to show your friends or maybe even enter in an art show? Then follow these easy steps to success.

Ensure proper lighting. If you are indoors, it might be best to use your flash (bounce off a wall or a roof if possible). If you are outside, your back should be to the sun and the flash should be off (make sure you don't get your own shadow in the picture).

Utilise lighting. Your photo should have some dark areas and some light highlights. The best way to do this is to imagine your photo in black and white. You should have a white spot, a black spot, and a gray spot in your photo.

Many good photographs use the rule of thirds. Your emphasis shouldn't be in the centre of your photograph. Imagine a Tic-Tac-Toe across your photo. The emphasis should be at one of the four points where the lines cross.

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It depends on the type of camera you have, however most cameras come with a USB cord that can be plugged into your computer. When you do this, you can then view the pictures that are on your camera and download/save them onto your computer. You can then attach the picture file to an email message, or upload it to Facebook, etc.

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Go with what you feel. Photography is art, and art is an endless path of imagination. Take photos from multiple angles, distances, colour schemes, and effects. All of these options are there to create unique photos.

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 13 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has also been viewed 45,872 times.